Improvement in breastpin-tongues



L. VAN DOR'EN. BREASTPIN TONGUES.

N. PETERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTZJN, D10.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LANSING VAN DOREN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREASTPlN-TONGUES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 194.277, dated August 14, 1877; application filed December 21, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LANSING VAN DoREN. of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breastpins and similar articles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, andto the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to breastpins and other similar articles, which are provided with a Fig. 3 is a view of the under side of the breastpin-plate with the pin hinged thereto.

A represents the body or plate of a breastpin or other similar article, provided with a hinged'pin, B, for fastening or attaching the same. 7

On the under side .of the plate A are two perforated lugs or cars, a a, any suitable distance apart, and between which the pin B is hinged by the following means: 0 represents a metallic socket for the insertion of the inner Fig. 2 is a sec 'tion through said central part of the hinge.

said pin also passing through the ears. or lugs a a, and completing the hinge.

The pin D, in its passage through the on largement b, enters the bore of the socket, as shown in Fig. 2, and a notch being being made in the pin B the pin D of the hinge fills this notch and locks the main pin B in the socket. The notch is made about one-third the thickness of the pin B, so as not to weaken said pin at that point.

By this invention the pin B, when broken, can easily be removed and another substituted. There being no solder, it is not so liable to get broken, as is otherwise the case.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination of the socket 0, provided with enlargement b, the notched pin B, and the connecting or fastening pin D, all constructed substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing 1 have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of December, 1876.

L. VAN DOREN.

Witnesses:

FRANK GALT, G. L. EVERT. 

